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Thanks for your thoughts hayden! I agree with you regarding Han Kang. She is young indeed, but she's quite famous and western critics seems to love her."The White Book" I found quite charming. If "The Vegetarian" wasn't such a short book I'd have abandoned it before the end. I bought 'Greek...

What about Han Kang? Her last novel won the Prix Médicis last year ("I do not bid farewell") and the Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature earlier this year. I'm not particularly fan of hers. I read the controversial english translation of "The Vegetarian" and also "The white book". For me...

Personally, I find Sean Baker boring and quite mediocre. If he wins somenthing I'll be pissed. This year was pretty weak indeed, the only films I want to watch are Leos Carax's C'est pas moi (out of competition) and Sorrentino's Parthenope (I read 3 reviews of this one, all negative, but that...

My personal wish is that this year's laureate be a non-european poet or philosopher or essayist or translator or journalist. The writers I would love to see win are Adonis, Anne Carson and Simon Hornblower (his translation and examination of Greek historical texts is astonishing). And my wild...

Anne Carson - If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho "messenger of spring ... nightingale with a voice of longing" - A book that presents us several compositions (oftentimes incomplete) by our dear...

The more I think about what I just read, the more I dislike this book. I feel robbed of my time. And I think a film would be just as bad.

Donna Tartt - The Secret History - This is my first exposure to her work but before I started, I was aware of the extreme opinions people have regarding Donna. I must say that my 16yo self would have loved this book, perhaps even thought it was a masterpiece. But I'm not a 16yo boy anymore. I...

Anne Carson - Eros the Bittersweet, an essay. - This is my favorite work by Anne Carson so far. Well researched, extremely well written (she doesn't complicate things and expresses ideas clearly, a delight to read!) and very passionate (as usual in her works). This book is a voyage through our...

Hello my friends! So lately I've been writing some stuff and taking it very seriously. I wrote a short story that I intend to publish somewhere eventualy (or delete I don't know yet) and I'm looking for people who would be interested in reading it first hand and giving me some tips, advices...

That's amazing!! I'll for sure read this book very soon

Interesting! Thanks for the info!!!

Nikolai Gogol - Viy "But she rode on me, on me myself! By God, she did!" - So, I stumbled upon the image below whilst searching for spooky stuff and it led me to this novella based on this creature of folk imagination coined by the people of Little Russia (Ukraine) Viy, the chief of the gnomes...

I love it, though I think its inferior to "Autobiography of Red" (which is my only reference of her so far). I like the way she writes, it gives me as a reader a certain feeling of freedom. I read her sentences almost as if I was a lightning bolt but even so they linger on me for hours. The...

Anne Carson - Norma Jeane Baker of Troy - The Trojan war as a Hollywood farce, hoax, hoax, hoax. Norma Jeane Baker the harlot of Troy, "that WMD in the forked form of woman". The dreamy brunette watches the hoax, the hoax... she lies, she's not real, she's but a cloud but they cannot spot the...

I'm curious to read your thoughts on this one.

Geoge R. R. Martin - A Storm of Swords (minor spoilers) Third installment of "A song of ice and fire" series. I'm really enjoying the ride. The books are thick but George's writting flows smoothly. His world building is extremely creative and rich, his characters are complex and cunning, with...

My friend that's exactly my case with this book. A friend of mine read it and absolutely hated it. This friend and I have both different tastes but she has a lot more knowledge of brazilian literature than I, so I am skeptical. I saw it a few days ago in a very privileged/visible part of a...

Biopic of Beckett (apparently it was released in the UK and Ireland last year and will be released in the US (and worldwide I presume) this year). From the trailer, the film looks a bit dull, overdramatic (I heard that violin in so many trailers... and it's the director of theory of everythig so...

On BBC Gozalo said: "We did think about it for about three seconds - was it a betrayal to my parents, to my father's [wishes]? "And we decided, yes, it was a betrayal. But that's what children are for."

I'd suggest "The boy and the Heron" (O menino e a garça por aqui) because it's a delight to watch it in a cinema, and apparently it will be a long time before its digital or dvd/bluray release whilst "Poor Things" is already available in digitally.